This document outlines strategies for teaching listening and speaking skills to beginner language learners. It recommends using Total Physical Response (TPR) techniques like commands that require physical responses, as well as games that encourage describing objects and asking questions. Songs are suggested to help students learn pronunciation and vocabulary. Specific activities proposed include information gap activities, opinion sharing, role-playing, games, and everyday classroom interactions. The document provides tips for teacher speech like using clear instructions and limiting jargon, as well as keeping sentences short and simple for young learners. Other techniques mentioned are allowing group work, using teaching materials, storytelling, poetry, and listening to music.

1. Strategies Of Teaching Listening
And Speaking For Beginner
Learners
Prepared by:
Ayu
Waan
Tasha

2.  Total Physical Response (TPR)
Games
Songs

3. Total Physical Response (TPR)
• This technique creates situations where
students must physically respond to
imperative commands.
• Games like “Simon Says” are a great example
of how TPR works.
• It’s a fun and interactive technique for
developing beginners’ listening and
comprehension skills in a non-threatening
way.

4. Games
 “What’s inside the bag?” and “What can we
do with this?”
 It gives students the chance to describe
everyday objects in their own words and ask
one another questions;
 They forget their nervousness in unrehearsed
speech and begin to speak more fluently,
make stronger eye contact, and become more
comfortable asking for clarification.

5. Songs
A great way for
pupils to learn to
understand and use
the local accent.
Introduces new
vocabulary to the
pupils.

6. Specific Strategies/Activities:
• Teaching oral language
- To develop oral communication skills,
focus on activities that encourage
learners to talk in a supportive
environment such as in pairs or
groups.

7. Specific Strategies/Activities:
Such activities include:
 Information gap activities where learners have to
exchange information in order to complete a task
 opinion gap activities where learners share and
discuss their own personal feelings, attitudes or
preferences about ideas or topics
 mime and role-play
 general communicative activities e.g. games,
group work, songs
 everyday classroom interactions

8. Teacher talk
• Keep talk to a minimum
• Use clear, common and consistent instructions
and repeat or rephrase if necessary
• Speak at a normal pace and volume
• Don’t use too much jargon
• Support instructions with visual cues as much
as possible

9. Tips for teaching listening to young
learners
• Keep sentences short and grammatically
simple
• Use exaggerated intonation to hold the child's
attention
• Emphasize key words
• Limiting the topics talked about to what is
familiar to the child
• Frequently repeating and paraphrasing

10. Other ways;
 Allow group work
 Use teaching materials
 Story telling
 Poetry
 Listening to music

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